Sentences with phrase «justice officials prosecuting»

Justice officials prosecuting the e-book case pointed to e-mails from Jobs demonstrating his role in pressuring the publishers.

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US officials refused to prosecute HSBC for money laundering in 2012 because of concerns within the Department of Justice that it would cause a «global financial disaster», a report says.

Former Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara took a shot at Trump's Justice Department, questioning its judicial independence in light of efforts by former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani to persuade «senior officials» to help him free a jailed businessman being prosecuted by Bharara's old office.

Nwobike is being prosecuted on a five - count charge of attempting to pervert the course of justice and offering gratification to public officials.

Also at 11 a.m., elected officials and activists will launch the «Raise the Age New York» campaign — a movement to increase the age at which teens are prosecuted as adults in the criminal justice system, outside Manhattan Municipal Building, 1 Centre Street, Lower Manhattan.

Not only that, on April 20, 2016, the EFCC under current Acting Chairman Ibrahim Magu further cleared CCT boss through an official letter with reference number EFCC / P / NHRU / 688 / V.30 / 99 which stated inter alia, «We would like to reiterate the Commission's position in regard to this matter as earlier communicated to you and state that the allegations levelled against Justice Umar were mere suspicion and consequently insufficient to successfully prosecute the offence».

The politicians are requesting that the Justice Department look into whether Exxon violated the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) law, which federal officials used to prosecute tobacco companies in the 1990s for lying about what they knew about the health impacts of smoking.

As Bloomberg reports, President Obama is now saying that it's up to Attorney General Eric Holder and the current Justice Department to decide whether to prosecute Bush administration officials, including the lawyers, for authorizing the CIA's use of aggressive interrogation techniques.

In practice, the U.S. Justice Department and most state and local prosecutors are disinclined to prosecute a crime that has already been handled by another jurisdiction and often have official, but non-binding, policies to that effect.

As well, former Supreme Court justice John Major's report into the Air India bombing also had quite an impact and has provided some long - needed closure for the families but also a blueprint for better communication between law enforcement officials as well as ways to investigate and prosecute terrorism.